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(ECP and CTSP grantees, reports, and other sites of interest for
conservation geography, mapping and GIS. Grantees are coded by
program and year of grant at the end of their name/state, i.e. e91 means
ECP grant in 1991. c=cstp, cm=ctsp-mac, cs=ctsp-software)
Forest
County Potawatomi Community, Crandon, WI e94. (Forest County
Potawatomi, P.O. Box 340, Crandon WI 54520 Tel. 715/478-2903 Fax 715.478-5280)
The Forest County Potawatomi Reservation contains approximately 12,000
acres. Currently, the Potawatomi Tribe consists of approximately 980
tribal members, of which about half reside on or near the reservation.
see also the Georgetown-Ridge
Farm School District #4 report on the Potawatomi .
Gila River Tribe, CA, e98.
Ho Chunk Nation, Wi
(also known as Winnebago) (Planning and Development Division,
P.O. Box 667, Black River Falls, WI 54615 phone: (715) 284-9343 fax: (715)
284-4291 e-mail: cstraight@ho-chunk.com. Lands/GIS Dept. (715) 284-2852
(800) 944-1652 fax: (715) 284-5884) (see GIS
Implementation in Wisconsin Winnebago Nation article below) Currently
near completion of a new G.I.S. System Assessment -- "assess the
Nation's geographic information system and make recommendations for improved
effectiveness, including accessibility by other Tribal programs."
Land use plans and a Land Development Procedural Handbook have also been
completed with support from the GIS.
Hoh Indian Tribe, Wa, e98 (2464 Lower Hoh Road, Forksm WA, 98331 Tel: (360)374-6582)
GIS PROGRAM: "The Tribe's goal is to continue the development of
a basic GIS to support its watershed monitoring and restoration projects.
Besides completing the ongoing floodplain mapping project, other anticipated
applications include a survey of basin wetlands to update the National
Wetlands Inventory, automation of salmon and steelhead spawner survey
data to facilitate calculation of escapement goals, location of streamside
monitoring sites for an ongoing study of the impacts of timber harvest
on stream temperature, and a study of channel migration for planning the
location of stream restoration and bank stabilization projects. Ultimately,
by assuming the stewardship of its own spatial data, the Tribe will be
in a stronger position to monitor and protect the fisheries resource upon
which its people have always depended." See
Hoh
River Floodplain Inventory: Integrating GIS and GPS To Redefine Floodplain
Management, by Kim Taylor and Jill Silver, Email: ktaylor@olypen.com
"This project used GPS and GIS technology to document floodplain
habitats along the Hoh River. The data will be used to update State maps,
identify degraded areas, and develop restoration strategies."
Hoopa Tribe, CA, e91.
Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, AZ e96.
(P.O. Box 123 Kykotsmovi, Arizona 86039 Tel:(520) 734-3000, Fax:(520) 734-2435)
"The Hopi Reservation constitutes
approximately 1,542,306 acres in northeastern Arizona."
Official Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
((520)734-2244, 734-3750): see their
MAP of the reservation.
the Hopi Information Network:
"free web-base Hopi information news and retrieval service. Our site is a focal
point of Hopi related web links cataloged, archived, and presented to you for your information."
Other good Hopi sites include:
HOPI: The Real Thing
and the Peaceful People site.
Indigenous Environmental Network.
(P.O.Box 485 Bemidji, MN 56601 Ph.(218)751-4967, Fax: (218)751-0561 Email: ien@igc.apc.org)
"The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples
whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation
by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings
and the natural laws." Their projects and campaigns cover many areas,
including: Tribal Environmental and Natural Resource Management, Tourism
and Recreation Pollution, Toxic Landfills & Illegal Dumping In Native
Lands, Toxic Incinerators, Chemical Run-Off From Agricultural Activities,
Toxic Producing Industries and Companies, Air Pollution, Water Quality
and Water Protection, Clearcutting Of Forests, Mining, Nuclear, Leaking
Underground Storage (and Above Ground) Tanks, Tribal Histories, Environmental
Code of Ethics; Alliance Building with the Non-Indigenous Community:
" The Indigenous Environmental Network has popularized a new angle
on Native sovereignty that includes appropriate technology and the defense
of natural resources, it has also introduced a new angle on environmentalism
that includes supporting the survival of endangered cultures, and putting
the protection of nature in a larger social, cultural and economic context.
Some tribes try to make convenient use of political sovereignty by shirking
their responsibility to take of the land as U.S. environmental laws say
they should. IEN Alaska regional chair David Harrison says, "It doesn't
do you any good to be sovereign over land if you can't live off it." Their
alliance building principles are: -Ecological Integrity, -Participatory
Democracy, -Local Automony, -Respect for Each Other and Diversity, -Collective
and Individual Empowerment, -Walking your Talk, -Honesty. Don't miss
their MAP:
"Some Existing or Proposed Threats fo Native Lands in Western North America"
nice LINKS PAGE.
Innovative GIS Solutions, Longmont CO e90.
(2000 So. College Ave. Suite 300, Ft. Collins, CO, 80525, Phone: (970) 490 5900,
Fax: (970) 490 2300. Email: igis@innovativegis.com. Jhon Goes In Center, Native Business
Advisor, Email: jgic@innovativegis.com or David J. Buckley, Corporate GIS Solutions
Manager, Email: dbuckley@pacificmeridian.com) The only US GIS consulting
firm founded by and presided over by a Native American., technological
innovator in advanced landscape analysis. Now a part of Pacific Meridian
Resources as their Colorado Office.
Intertribal GIS Council, White River AZ e93.
(Intertribal GIS Council Office, 29 S.E. Court Suite #215, P.O. Box 1937, Pendleton,
Oregon 97801 Phone: (541) 966-9097 Fax: (541) 966-6010 email: igc@itgisc.org. Chairman: William
D. Northover (Yakama Nation) tel:(541) 278-5244) "The Itertribal
GIS Council (IGC) is a national Native non-profit organization dedicated
wholly to promoting tribal self-determination by improving management
of geographic information and building intertribal communications networks.
The IGC was established in 1993 to educate Native people and tribal organizations
about the many applications of spatial data technology and to promote
successful use of Geographic Information System (GIS) for effective management
of native land and associated natural, human, and cultural resource values.
Key goals of the IGC include the following:
1.Promote the successful and appropriate use of GIS and related technologies;
2.build cooperation and partnerships among Native people and organizations;
3.facilitate coordination and exchange of technical inforamtion; 4.Educate
tribal members and staff about spatial data technologies."
Karuk Tribe, CA, e98.
Kickapoo Tribe KS e98
Los Coyotes Band of Indians, CA, e98.
Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, Inc. Canada e98.
Manzanita Band of Mission Indians CA e98.
Menominee Tribal Forestry, e98.
National Park Service Tribal Heritage Preservation Program.
(Tribal Preservation Program, Heritage Preservation Services, National Park Service, 1849 C
street, NW, NC330, Washington, DC. 20240 Contact: Ronnie Emery at (202)
343-4280; fax (202) 343-3921 e-mail: hps-info@nps.gov.) See:
Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.
"In 1996 the national historic preservation program entered a new era, as fourteen
Indian tribes were approved by NPS to assume national program responsibilities on tribal
lands, pursuant to Section 101(d) of the National Historic Preservation
Act. Among the responsibilities assumed by these tribes are conducting
historic property surveys, maintaining permanent inventories of historic
properties, nominating properties to the National Register of Historic
Places, and reviewing Federal agency undertakings pursuant to Section
106 of the Act." See also their: NATIVE
AMERICAN CONSULTATION DATABASE. "The Native American Consultation
Database is an easy way to identify a current contact for each Indian
tribe, Alaska Native corporation, and Native Hawaiian organization. Information
obtained from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Claims Commission,
and directly from tribal leaders is available for all 771 Federally recognized
Indian tribes (including Alaska Native villages), Alaska Native corporations,
and Native Hawaiian organizations. The database can be searched for contact
names by entering the name of a tribe or reservation, the name of a particular
state or county, or the name of a Federal administrative unit".
Indian Reservations
in the Continental United States ONLINE MAP.
Don't miss their National
Tribal Websites and Links page.
National Park Service Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
(NAGPRA) (National Park Service, Archeology & Ethnography Program, 1849 C Street,
N.W., NC340, Washington, DC 20240; telephone 202-343-8161/1095; fax 202-343-5260;
or email dca@nps.gov, contact: Laura Mahoney) Among it's NAGPRA duties,
the NPS has also developed a national online database, the National
Archeological Database (NADB), NAGPRA module. It includes information
on official tribe, organization and federal agency contacts, and copies
of required Federal Register notices;
Native Americans and the Environment, Center for Conservation Biology, Rice University.
(135 Anderson Laboratories, 6100 Main Street, MS 170, Houston, Texas
77005 Tel: (713) 285-5480, Email: about@conbio.rice.edu. Author: Dr Alx
Dark alxdark@altavista.net) "This is a non-profit project: 1) to
promote education and research on environmental problems facing Native
American communities; 2) to explore the values and historical experiences
that Native Americans bring to bear on environmental issues; and 3) to
promote conservation measures that respect Native American land and resource
rights. You will find thousands of Internet and published resources described
and catalogued at this site. " For best results, do a search of the
site using "gis " as your target, quoted with a space after
gis. Don't Miss: Tribal
Environmental and Natural Resource Assistance Handbook. (Please note
that this is the original, free source site for "Native Americans
and the Environment": the copy of this content that appears on the
American Indian Heritage Foundation site was taken without permission
4 years ago and has not been removed despite repeated requests from the
author Dr. Dark.)
National Environmental Coalition Of Native Americans.
(by Grace Thorpe, 2213 W. 8th St., Prague, OK 74864 tel: (405) 567-4297,
Email: neconaok@earthlink.net) Great grass-roots environmental site by the daughter of Jim Thorpe, the
greatest athlete of the century. "Dedicated to keeping nuclear waste
from being disposed of in Indian Country, and to educating Indians and Non-Indians
about the health dangers of radioactivity and the transportion of nuclear
waste on America's rails and roads....In response to efforts to place Nuclear
Waste on Indian Lands, NECONA has been successful. Of the 17 tribes originally
considering MRS sites, all but 3 have withdrawn."
All text by the respective organizations/authors
January 2, 1997
Web layout & design: Charles Convis, ESRI Conservation Program
April 2, 1996
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